WHITE MAN IN HAMMERSMITH PALAIS


Midnight to six, man
For the first time from Jamaica
Dillinger and Leroy Smart
Delroy Wilson, cool operator
Ken Boothe, U.K. pop reggae
With backing bands sound systems.
If they got anything to say,
There's many black ears here to listen

But it was Four Tops all night
With encores from stage right,
Charges from the base knives to the treble
But on stage they ain't got no roots, rock, rebel.
On stage they ain't got no roots, rock, rebel.

'Cause it won't get you anywhere
Foolin' with your guns.
The British Army is waiting out there
An' it weighs fifteen hundred tons.
White youth, black youth,
Better find another solution.
Why not phone up Robin Hood
And ask him for some wealth distribution.

Punk rockers of the U.K.,
They won't notice anyway.
They're all too busy fighting
For a good place under the lighting.
The new groups are not concerned
With what there is to be learned.
They got Burton suits.  
Huh, you think it's funny.

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